Re-envisioning the Virgin Mary: Colonial Painting from South America: Austin, Texas

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Exhibition:
Re-envisioning the Virgin Mary: Colonial Painting from South America
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Two-part exhibition:
(1) 20 September 2014 – 14 June 2015
(2) July 2015 – 2016

A two-part exhibition, the first phase of which features seven paintings on loan from two of the United States’ most distinguished collections of colonial South American art: the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, New York, and the Marilynn and Carl Thoma Collection, Chicago.
The paintings, created in what are now the countries of Peru and Venezuela, represent devotions to Mary that were popular in Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and brought to the Americas by Spanish colonists.

In phase two, which opens in July 2015, the works reflect a different narrative with uniquely South American elements: the Virgin in the New World. Included are paintings by masters Antonio José Landaeta and Juan Pedro López, and several works by unidentified artists.

 

Genaro Pérez Villaamil, Madrid

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(Vistas monumentales de ciudades españolas. El pintor romántico Genaro Pérez Villaamil)

Room 60 Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
17 December 2014 – 6 September 2015

Curated by Javier Barón, this exhibition includes Villaamil’s large Diptych, formed from 42 individual scenes painted on tin-plates between 1835 and 1839, by the 19th-century landscape and architectural painter, some of whose work was influenced by British artists such as David Roberts and Turner.

2015-05-Vistas monumentales-VillaamilThe Diptych anticipates Villaamil’s later focus on the depiction of historic buildings and monuments, which led him to become the artistic director of La España artística y monumental (1842-1850), a publishing project for which he supplied drawings and watercolours for reproduction as lithographs. Related lithographs are also displayed along with drawings and watercolours by the artist and paintings by Roberts.
Summary information about the Diptych’s restoration can be found online here.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

 

Juan Muñoz, Milan

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Juan Muñoz (1953-2001): Double Bind and Around
Hangar Bicocca, Milan
9 April – 23 August 2015
Curated by Vicente Todoli, this is the first exhibition about the Spanish sculptor in Italy. It reconstructs his installation Double Bind, shown in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2001.
Exhibition booklet available as a PDF via the exhibition web page.

Alfredo Ramos Martinez, Los Angeles

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Exhibition:
Alfredo Ramos Martinez (1872-1946): An exhibition in honour of Maria Martinez Bolster
Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles
30 April – 11 July 2015

A display of drawings and paintings by the Mexican artist who having trained in Paris was made head of the National Academy in Mexico City in 1913, where he supervised the enrollment of the young muralist David Siqueiros amongst others and influenced the Modernist artist Rufino Tamayo. The works on show are from the 1930s and 1940s when Ramos Martinez had settled in Los Angeles, whilst he was seeking medical assistance for his young daughter crippled with a bone disease, though the imagery is inspired by the Mexican landscape and people. The Louis Stern Galleries represents the artist’s estate.

Joaquín Torres-García retrospective, New York

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Forthcoming exhibition
Joaquín Torres-García
Museum of Modern Art, New York
October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016

Works ranging from the late 19th century to the 1940s, and includes drawings, paintings, objects, sculptures, and original artist notebooks and rare publications will be on show.

Jaume Plensa: Venice Biennale 2015

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Jaume Plensa. Together
Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
7 May – 22 November 2015

A quartet of new installations by one of Spain’s leading sculptors the Catalan-born Jaume Plensa, displayed in the Palladian church of San Giorgio Maggiore as part of the Venice Biennale. The display Together, curated by Clare Lilley, Director of Programmes at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, creates a ‘conversation’ between two sculpted heads above which, hanging from the Basilica’s dome, is suspended a hand formed from letters of eight different alphabets. Another sculpture, placed in the nave, and drawings related to the installations will be shown at the Fondazione Cini’s library, in its “Nuova Manica Lunga“.

Picasso/Dalí, Dalí/Picasso: Barcelona

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Picasso/Dalí, Dalí/Picasso
Museu Picasso, Barcelona
20 March-28 June 2015

Exhibition organized by the Barcelona museum and the Dalí Museum, St Petersburg, Florida to explore the mutual admiration and rivalry between these two key figures in twentieth-century art. Art works and documents from the time reveal the counterpoints and contradictions throughout their relationship, from their first meeting in the 1920s, when Dalí visited Picasso’s studio after making his first avant-garde forays, through the 1930s and their friendships with leading intellectuals―André Breton, Paul Éluard and Georges Bataille―through to their opposing positions following the Spanish Civil War.
Accompanied by catalogue.

Michel Leiris, Metz

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Exhibition:

Leiris & Co: Picasso, Masson, Miró, Giacometti, Lam, Bacon. . .
Centre Pompidou, Metz, France
3 April – 14 September 2015

A cross-disciplinary exhibition focusing on Michel Leiris, the writer, anthropologist, bull-fighting aficionado, and Africanist curator at the Musée de l’Homme, who formed friendships with artists such as Picasso and Miró amongst others.
The exhibition of nearly 350 items encompasses a wide range of works from Raymond Roussel to Pablo Picasso that stem from Africa, the Caribbean, Spain, Cuba and China, resulting in a web of links between writing, painting, jazz and opera, trance and bullfighting, voodoo and Ethiopian possession rites.
Accompanied by a catalogue jointly published by Pompidou-Metz and Éditions Gallimard.
Symposium, organised in cooperation with Musée du Quai Branly, Paris: Metz and Paris,10-11 September 2015.

Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination, Denver

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Exhibition:
Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination
Denver Art Museum
22 March – 28 June 2015

The exhibition Miró: The Experience of Seeing of works by Miró from the last two decades of his career (1963-1981) organized by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía from its own collections, and touring venues in America, has now reached Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, under the title Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination.
Accompanied by an exhibition catalogue.